There are different ways that New York lawyers assess the value of a personal injury legal settlement case. There are appellate decisions that determine what the value of a case is. There are amounts that we, as being a part of this business, commonly feel is the right amount for a case, given worker safety factors etc; a fair New York personal injury legal settlement. My thought on what is the fair, the right amount for a case, when Im on trial with the case, however much I can get a jury to award this person and however much the appellate court will sustain. Thats the value of a case. Now, an insurance company can tell me, This is a $250,000 case, day in and day out. Thats great. But if I think I'm going to get in front of a jury and they're going to award my client a two million dollar New York personal injury legal settlement, and the appellate court is going to sustain 1.5 of it, thats not a $250,000 case in my book. Thats a million and a half dollar case. Thats how I assess it. Now, in order to assess a case that way, you have to be able to walk in there and assume that you're going to win. And thats a big assumption. But if you've been doing it enough years, have experience in New York personal injury worker safety factors, and you've been as lucky as I have, I just assume that its going to happen.
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